The Price: $80 for the log, $80 for the button pillow $56

The Verdict: They're expensive. There's no getting around it. And yes, you could probably make your own, if you had the knowhow and the time, for much, much cheaper than this costs (which is a subject of another post I'm writing). So why would you buy this?

Well, I don't know. It's nice looking, in my opinion, and they're actually functional. The log pillow has just about the right amount of space between the holes to fit a MacBook (but not a MacBook Pro). This makes for a decent wrist rest, and the holes on the bottom let enough air evacuate that the laptop doesn't overheat. The softness also feels great on your thighs.

The button pillow is essentially a regular pillow with buttons on it—made for lifting the bottom of the laptop away from the cloth so it can ventilate properly. Yeah, it really is just a bunch of buttons on a pillow. But it works; the buttons aren't too hard and the pillow is soft.

Which brings us back to the original point of why you'd want it. I don't know. Even if you aren't of the type to DIY and construct one of these out of spare parts, $80 is still ridiculously expensive for a laptop pillow that doesn't have a fan, doesn't have USB ports and doesn't do much of anything.

Yeah, even at $80, which is half the price that we saw it at originally, it's still too expensive by 50%. So, there's not much we can say here. We love it, and we love the concept (which is why we wanted to review it), but we can't recommend it at this price. [Log and Button]

Update: Intelligent Forms just told me they managed to lower the price to $56.

These come in three flavors, Log, Button and Terrapin—we prefer the log—and will cost $160 US/CDN when it's eventually released. This seems like a Canada-first deal, so the rest of us will have to wait a little bit to get our turn. Still, $160 seems really steep even if it includes shipping. We rarely say this, because it's true for just about every manufactured product, but you could build your own for much cheaper. [Intelligent Forms]

Better yet: the SOLo has LED lighting built in for subtle evening lighting effects, you can check on its charge status on its built-in LCD monitor, and it has a large device drawer so you can safely pop your phone, iPod or even laptop inside to keep it safe. For some reason it also has Bluetooth, allowing it "to collect, distribute and exhibit information on both the tabletop LCD display screen and wirelessly between computers and the internet"... and while we're not sure exactly what that means, it sounds pretty impressive.

It's in stainless steel and tempered glass with silicon solar cells and it's around 43 x 30 x 18 inches in size. No info on its price, but it's available through Intelligent Forms own website and considering one of it's suggested uses is aboard a cruise ship, it's going to be expensive. [Intelligent Forms via Born Rich]